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Age and sex have hitherto received less consideration than they merit in publications dealing with prognosis and mortality in coronary artery disease. Yet a clear knowledge of all factors that influence mortality is of paramount importance at a time when the efficicacy of modern methods of treatment is under critical review. Even in the matter of their influence on etiology, age and sex have received less prominence than the facts would seem to justify.
A. A. F. Peel (Fri,) studied this question.